I.A. O'Shaughnessy Dean of the College of Arts and Letters • Professor of History • University of Notre Dame

John T. McGreevy

Now serving as the dean of Notre Dame’s College of Arts and Letters and Professor of History, John T. McGreevy is the author of two books: Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth Century Urban North, published by the University of Chicago Press in 1996, and Catholicism and American Freedom: A History, published by W.W. Norton in 2003.

McGreevy has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Louisville Institute and the Erasmus Institute, and has published numerous articles and reviews in the Journal of American History, Commonweal, The New Republic, Chicago Tribune, The New York Review of Books, and other venues.

He is currently working on a study of the nineteenth century Jesuits and what they tell us about religion in a global age. He is also interested in the intersection of religion and politics in the United States, from the 1960s to the present.

McGreevy teaches courses in American political history and American religious history, as well as a graduate reading course on the 20th century United States.

As dean of the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame, McGreevy is responsible for the overall vision and strategy of the College. He oversees both the academic core and the support structure of the College. In cooperation with faculty members and other administrators, the dean seeks to advance Arts and Letters while integrating the various aspects of Notre Dame’s triadic identity as a residential liberal arts college, a dynamic research university, and a Catholic institution of international standing.

The dean oversees the University’s programs in the Division of the Arts, the Division of the Humanities, and the Division of the Social Sciences; appoints and oversees associate deans and the chairpersons of 20 departments as well as selected directors and support staff; and supports and evaluates the teaching and research of faculty members.

McGreevy’s key responsibilities as dean include:

overall vision and strategic planning

tenure and promotion decisions

high-level appointments to faculty positions, including external recruitment to full professorships and endowed chairs